Thursday, August 26, 2004
August 13, 2004
FOXnews
The Mounties are still trying to get their beer.
More than a week after 54,000 cans of Moosehead lager vanished on a New Brunswick highway, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracked down the truck driver who had been hauling them.
RCMP Sgt. Gary Cameron told the Canadian Press wire service that Wade Haines, 30, was not yet a suspect, just a "person of interest."
The 18-wheeler, still running, and its empty trailer were found in the parking lot of a McDonald's on the Maine-New Brunswick border after Haines failed to show up at a Toronto depot Aug. 16.
Haines himself was located Tuesday in southern Ontario.
"We are speaking with him," Cameron said. "He is not under arrest. No one is under arrest."
As for the beer, which was destined for Mexico and has labeling in both English and Spanish, it's been turning up here and there.
Owen Larson, a farmer in Woodstock, New Brunswick, saw a Ford pickup lose a makeshift trailer on a country road Monday night, then speed away.
The trailer veered into Larson's field, where it overturned, dumping about 5,000 cans of the hot lager onto the ground, where many of them broke open.
"We hope the bull doesn't get into it and get tight," said Larson's wife Donna.
Four empty cans were found discarded in and around Fredericton, about an hour south of Larson's farm, earlier this week.
Cameron thinks whoever stole the beer, worth about $60,000 in U.S. currency, didn't put a lot of thought into the heist, and, due to the publicity about the case, is having a hard time selling it off.
"It's a crime that lacks sophistication," he said as he stood in front of a Woodstock dumpster filled with recovered cans. "I think if they had known the labels were in Spanish, they probably wouldn't have gone ahead."
August 13, 2004
FOXnews
The Mounties are still trying to get their beer.
More than a week after 54,000 cans of Moosehead lager vanished on a New Brunswick highway, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracked down the truck driver who had been hauling them.
RCMP Sgt. Gary Cameron told the Canadian Press wire service that Wade Haines, 30, was not yet a suspect, just a "person of interest."
The 18-wheeler, still running, and its empty trailer were found in the parking lot of a McDonald's on the Maine-New Brunswick border after Haines failed to show up at a Toronto depot Aug. 16.
Haines himself was located Tuesday in southern Ontario.
"We are speaking with him," Cameron said. "He is not under arrest. No one is under arrest."
As for the beer, which was destined for Mexico and has labeling in both English and Spanish, it's been turning up here and there.
Owen Larson, a farmer in Woodstock, New Brunswick, saw a Ford pickup lose a makeshift trailer on a country road Monday night, then speed away.
The trailer veered into Larson's field, where it overturned, dumping about 5,000 cans of the hot lager onto the ground, where many of them broke open.
"We hope the bull doesn't get into it and get tight," said Larson's wife Donna.
Four empty cans were found discarded in and around Fredericton, about an hour south of Larson's farm, earlier this week.
Cameron thinks whoever stole the beer, worth about $60,000 in U.S. currency, didn't put a lot of thought into the heist, and, due to the publicity about the case, is having a hard time selling it off.
"It's a crime that lacks sophistication," he said as he stood in front of a Woodstock dumpster filled with recovered cans. "I think if they had known the labels were in Spanish, they probably wouldn't have gone ahead."
